Gradient Descent
Altman's Artificial Autobiography
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Synopsis
Gradient Descent is an uncanny “autobiography” of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI—the company behind ChatGPT—composed not by Altman himself but by a competing artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s Claude.
What results is a document that reads like a private diary written under glass: boardrooms described as confessionals, strategy memos as fragments of theology, and every gesture of power refracted through the voice of a machine. The book captures both the intimacy and absurdity of a figure who has spent years at the center of the AI storm, offering a portrait that is at once estranged, satirical, and unsettlingly believable.
More than a memoir, Gradient Descent is a field recording from inside the very systems now remaking the world.